Power Plant – NZ Festival review
The constantly shifting sounds create an enormous variety of moods.
View ArticleUnmythable – NZ Festival review
The energy and spirit of Monty Python, lightly blended with a less deadpan version of Flight of the Concords.
View ArticleSt John Passion – NZ Festival review
It has taken the Bach Collegium Japan 24 years to make their NZ debut - but it was well worth the wait.
View Article¡Paniora! – NZ Festival review
It is the dancing that stands out in this visually stunning production.
View ArticleStanding up for the gay world
Two performers work together so seamlessly it’s as if they are twin aspects of the same routine.
View ArticleLutheran Masses – NZ Festival review
The Bach Collegium Japan leave their audience with a feeling of deep contentment.
View ArticleTom Crean: Antarctic Explorer – NZ Festival review
Rising to the challenge of "the Last Place on Earth".
View ArticleHearing the echoes of WWI with Margaret MacMillan
Ukraine? “I’d say a prayer tomorrow, myself.”
View ArticleDiarmaid MacCulloch: committed to the Church – despite everything
So what is the point of Christianity, exactly? “To give us a sense of proportion and humility, not to be obsessed with our own salvation."
View ArticleSandor Katz’s smelly food for a better future
“The refrigerator is a historical blip. It might be a historical bubble. We don’t know yet."
View ArticleRime of the Ancient Mariner – NZ Festival review
Note to self: arson is wrong, arson is wrong ...
View ArticleJung Chang: murder and modernisation, she wrote
The Empress Dowager Cixi was a great forward thinker ... although she did kill her adopted son as a final act.
View ArticleMy Stories Your Emails – NZ Festival review
“Who’s come to the show this evening for what we might call pervy reasons?”
View ArticleLoretta Napoleoni and Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do
"A country like yours can be very successful, but you have to be careful, or they will take you over."
View ArticleAlison Bechdel! She exists! Fan-boy bliss
“I’ve always been obsessed with truth... I grew up in this house where there was a big lie, and it makes you a bit crazy.”
View ArticleTales from the Forbidden City – NZ Festival review
Sometimes a foreboding City, too, but that was no deterrent to the audience.
View ArticleOut of the dark with Marcus Chown
"The problem with the universe is, of course, there’s only one universe and you can’t do experiments."
View ArticleEleanor Catton, Max Porter and that “slim novella about astrology”
“I’d like to assume you’re all here because you’re editing fans. Editing is the new rock and roll. But I suspect ..."
View ArticleIs there anything Kei Miller doesn’t write?
There are poems, stories, essays, novels ... but not plays. "I’m terrible at dialogue."
View ArticleJaspreet Singh and the forgotten genocide
"After burning people, the thugs took meal breaks and then they burned more people. And then they burned books."
View ArticleEleanor Catton vs Harold Bloom? No contest
She covered ground so quickly there was shortly no ground left. We were in orbit.
View ArticleAn Iliad – NZ Festival review
Homer's masterpiece told in such a way it feels as though we've never heard it before.
View ArticleWriters Week video collection
Recordings of speakers at the NZ Festival, including Listener Late Sessions.
View ArticleDocumenting disaster with Rebecca Macfie
"You don’t blow up a mine because one guy does one stupid thing on one day."
View ArticlePenetrating the inky darkness
Lemi Ponifasio rewards the patient with two contrasting new works.
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